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R. A. Causey, L. M. Steck, R. Van Namen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2384-2387
Material Property and Tritium Control | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24635
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The tritium recoil injection technique was used to determine the tritium diffusion coefficient for Path A Prime Candidate Alloy (PCA) over the temperature range 323K to 523K. The diffusion coefficient is given by: Dissolution tritium counting of samples saturated in a tritium-hydrogen mixture was used to determine the tritium solubility for PCA over the temperature range 673K to 973K. The solubility is given by: No evidence of high energy trapping due to the titanium carbide precipitates in PCA was seen.